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Nocebo

R. Ostermeier

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Details

Status in production
Release Date 2025
Limitation 24 copies
Size 24 × 16 cm
ISBN 978-3-949341-80-9
Edition lettered edition
Workmanship Thread-stitched hardcover with an original etching pasted onto the endpaper, which we can see through the die-cut. The book comes in a clamshell with petrol-blue edges and a larger round die-cut. Signed by the author.

Content

“I believe that religion did a great disservice to the word soul by grabbing it for its own goody-bag. The soul has eyes and ears that receive signals from the light and the dark, from above ground and below, from the quotidian present to the deep past. The soul in this sense is open to the world at a level we cannot comprehend fully because it lies beyond the reach of words, of explanation. Soul resonates to symbol, ritual. It was what I suspected Birdwhistell was trying to articulate with her emphasis that we’d never know what we’d found, and my sense that the word feel was unspoken—.”